GEOLOGICAL NOTES—HONEYMAN. 171 
nence. Here we have the extreme of the Waverly Gold Field. 
From this to Halifax Station we have Quartzites with Argillites 
The latter connect with the Quartzites at Richmond. These 
Argillites extend beyond the Station through Halifax City to 
Point Pleasant. 
MONTAGU GOLD MINES. 
At Halifax our Party received large additions by the arrival 
of several other members. We next visited the Montagu Gold 
Mines, near Halifax. On our way a subject of conversation with 
Dr. Blanford and Mr. Topley. was the age of the gold bearing 
rocks. When the Gold was first discovered the geology of Nova 
Scotia and New Brunswick had not attained to its present state 
of development. The only fossiliferous rocks with which they 
could be compared were the Middle and Upper Silurian rocks of 
the “Arisaig Series.” The high metamorphism of the gold bearing 
rocks when compared with that of the others, and the faet of the 
existence of gold in quantity seemed conclusive of their Lower 
Silurian age. Vide my Paper “On the Geology of the Nova 
Seotia Gold Fields."—Journal of the Geological Society, 1563. 
Since then the Archwan and Hudson River of Arisaig have 
come to light, as well as the Archean and Cincinnati or Hudson 
River, of Wentworth, of the Cobequid Mountains, the Arch- 
ean and Upner Lingula Flags of Cape Breton, and the Archean 
and Lower Lingula Flags or Primordial of Saint John, New 
Brunswick, and yet no obvious equivalent of the gold bearing 
rocks have appeared. We have consequently been led from this 
and other considerations to look to Wales for their equivalent, 
and consider that we have found at least an approximate equiva- 
lent in the gold bearing rocks of the Dolgelly district, 2. e., the 
Cambrian or Pre-Lower Lingula Flags. In this, as at Arisaig, 
we would adopt the late Mr. Salter’s advice, in consequence of 
distance, to use the qualifying term approximate. Vide Paper 
* On the Geology of Halifax and Colchester Counties, Part I.’— 
Trans. Institute, 1882-83, 
One of the Mines, the Bluenose, or New Albion, was par- 
ticularly examined, the position of the auriferous vein, its char- 
